Simple Does

Getting out of bed we encounter the new day. We will follow our routine towards doing our day’s duty, our tasks of import. In doing that we will meet problems to be solved, work to be done, people to work with. Problems will be defined and pondered. We will work at solutions. We will find some while others go unanswered.

The nature of work is doing repeated tasks of a job description. One of those tasks is making the best of things not working well. When such do not improve, we determine the nature and scale of the issue, the problem. We wonder if this problem will block our progress forward, or cause unnecessary expense, or thwart our objectives into becoming something unwanted.

If big enough, we define the problem and research alternative solutions. The cost of same, the damage from same, the timelines involved and a host of other aspects of the problem.

Scratching our heads and sharing this problem in discussion with others is often what we do. All with no solutions but a great deal of consternation. Then one day a voice in the back of the room claims a simple solution; do nothing and ignore the problem. We have studied it to death and know it will not derail our mission and vision of the future. Don’t sweat it and leave it alone.

The rest of the room is stunned into silence. Then a chuckle builds to much laughter. The deed is done and without a fuss.

Simple is the answer. Doing nothing is an option with little effort or cost.

Sometimes we make something out of nothing. That is a problem in itself. Perhaps a fresh look will inform us of the least?

November 17, 2022

 

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